Virginia Tech arrested two dozen or more students Sunday night while dispersing an “encampment” similar to other anti-Israeli protests spreading around the country, according to media reports. University of Virginia President Jim Ryan likely will face a similar test.
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Perhaps Ryan could draw spine-stiffening inspiration from the University’s founder Thomas Jefferson, who dealt with student riots in 1825.
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The ideological filtering process is at work at UVA. The more each department becomes ideologically homogenous, inclined to groupthink, and disparaging of anyone with different views, the less likely it is to hire anyone who thinks differently. A vicious cycle sets in.
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A core principle of academic research is for scholars to make their data open to inspection by others for the purpose of peer review. The UVA administration doesn’t live up to its own principles.
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Is this case an outlier or a symptom of a larger corruption in which academic standards were suspended for demographically favored groups?
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Dr. Tiffany King, a tenured professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Women, Sexuality, and Gender, spoke in a virtual symposium “At the Edge of Each Other’s Battles: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black, and Indigenous Futures.”
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Whatever UVA leadership might have said to people in private, their words and actions have been ineffectual in altering the reality that pro-Palestinian students feel comfortable wearing their badges of loyalty while most Jews have stopped wearing theirs.
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Sometimes we hear from alumni who believe UVA has gone so far down the rabbit hole of wokeness that it’s a lost cause. UVA is not a lost cause. If it were, we wouldn’t be wasting our time with it.
A Tale of Two Protests: UVA vs. Berkeley Read More »
By manipulating the Board agenda, the Jim Ryan administration has managed to avoid any meaningful accountability at the University of Virginia.
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The Racial Equity Task Force, a 2020 document that transformed governance at the University of Virginia, listed 12 top priorities for addressing the legacy of historical racism. One was to address “serious challenges to racial equity in staff hiring, wages, retention, promotion, and procurement” but the report cited no actual evidence of disparities in pay.
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